PE

PE may refer to:

Arts and media

• Parasite Eve (video game), on the original PlayStation
• Pineapple Express (film), a 2008 American action-comedy film starring Seth Rogen
• Power electronics (music), a type of noise music
• The Press-Enterprise (California), a newspaper serving the Inland Empire in Southern California
• Private eye, a character class in the MMORPG Neocron
• Public Enemy (group), a hip hop group from Long Island, New York

In business and economics

• P/E ratio, or price-to-earnings ratio
• Performance Evaluation, a journal
• Professional Engineer, a post-nominal suffix indicating such a certification
• Private equity, equity investments in companies that are not traded on a public stock exchange
• Permanent establishment, a fixed place of business establishing taxable presence of a business in a host country

Businesses and organizations

• Air Europe Italy (IATA airline designator PE)
• Pacific Electric, a defunct Los Angeles rail transit company
• PerkinElmer, an American technology company
• Polícia do Exército (Brazil), an Army Police force
• Polícia do Exército (Portugal), an Army Police force

Places

• PE postcode area, UK, covering Peterborough
• Pernambuco, a state of Brazil
• Peru (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and NATO country code PE)
• Port Elizabeth, a city in South Africa
• Prince Edward Island, a Canadian province

Science and technology

Computing and telecommunication

• Phase encoding, another name for Manchester code
• Portable Executable, a computer file format
• Windows Preinstallation Environment, a lightweight version of Microsoft Windows
• Progressive enhancement, a strategy for web design
• Protocol encryption, a feature of some peer-to-peer file-sharing clients
• Provider edge, a router between computer networks

Medical conditions

• Pectus excavatum
• Pleural effusion
• Premature ejaculation
• Pulmonary embolism, a blockage of the pulmonary artery

Medical interventions

• Penis enlargement
• Phenylephrine, a common over-the-counter decongestant
• Phenytoin equivalent, used to measure doses of fosphenytoin
• Physical exercise
• Prolonged exposure therapy, a form of behavior therapy designed to treat posttraumatic stress disorder

Organic chemistry

• Pentaerythritol, a polyol
• Phenylephrine, a common over-the-counter decongestant
• Phenytoin equivalent, used to measure doses of fosphenytoin
• Phosphatidyl ethanolamine
• Phycoerythrin, a water-soluble protein used as a fluorescent marker in microscopy and flow cytometry
• Polyethylene, a common plastic polymer

Physics

• Positron emission, a type of radioactive decay
• Potential energy, the energy stored in a body or in a system due to its position in a force field or due to its configuration
• Proton emission, a type of radioactive decay
• Protective earth, a type of electrical protective system
• Reduction potential, the negative logarithm of electron activity

Other uses in science and technology

• AEG PE, a German World War I armored ground-attack aircraft
• Present Era, a year numbering system commonly used in archaeology that uses 1950s as the epoch marker

Other uses

• Pakistani English, the variant of English language spoken in Pakistan
• Physical education
• Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup, a rowing event at Henley Royal Regatta

See also

• Pe (disambiguation)
• Pee (disambiguation)